Knock-down combination chair and hair dryer



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United States Patent 3,007,736 KNOCK-DOWN COMBINATION CHAIR AND HAIR DRYER Lee S. Watlington, 1204 N. Linden, Bloomington, Ill. Filed Apr. 21, 1959, Ser. No. 807,939 3 Claims. (Cl. 297-217) This invention relates to a knock-down combination chair and hair dryer.

It has for its principal object the provision of an improved construction of this character which will be highly efiicient in use and manufacture.

Due to the size and bulk as well as weight of a combination chair and hair dryer, shipping is a considerable problem resulting in time and expense in packing the apparatus and providing costly crates. It is an object of this invention to provide a combination chair and hair dryer which is packed and shipped in disassembled con dition, the structure being such as to permit a person of ordinary experience to quickly and conveniently assemble the chair and dryer after being removed from its shipping crate.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings showing the preferred form of construction, and in which:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of my invention in assembled condition;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the invention in disassembled condition and ready for crating.

The several objects of my invention are accomplished by the preferred form of construction shown in the accompanying drawings. In such drawing indicates the hair dryer cabinet from the top wall of which extends an outlet conduit 11 which carries a hood 12 adapted to be mounted in surrounding relation with the head of the person having her hair dried.

A chair is indicated at 13. Such chair includes a suitable back rest 14 and a seat 15. The seat 15 has its inner edge portion 16 mounted to rest upon the horizontal flange 17 of a bracket 18 secured in any suitable manner to the adjacent wall 19 of the cabinet 10. The back rest 14 of the chair 13 is adapted to have its lower end portion 17 supported on the edge portion 16 of the seat '15.

The outer end portion of the seat 15 is supported by legs 20. Each of these legs 20 terminate at their upper end portion into horizontally extending arm rests 21, and there being provided on each arm rest 21 an arm pad or cushion 22.

The legs 20 fit in vertical grooves 23 formed in the seat 15. The inner end portions 24 of the arm rests fit into grooves 25 formed in the back rest 14. These end portions 24 of the arm rests 21 extend rearwardly of the back rest 14 to overlap the side walls 26 of the cabinet 10. Any suitable means may be provided for detachably connecting the legs 20 and arm rests 21 to the seat 15 and cabinet 10 respectively. For example, there may be provided in the seat member 15 and in the side walls 26 of the cabinet 10 tubular inserts 27 threaded internally to receive the thread bearing studs 28, projected through openings 29 formed in the legs 20 and arm rests 21.

When the legs 20 and arm rests 21 are connected to the seat member 15 and the cabinet 10, the legs and arm rests will have portion positioned in the grooves 23 and 25 thereby to hold the back rest 14 and seat member 15 firmly in position with respect to the cabinet 10.

In preparing the apparatus for shipment, the leg and arm rests are detached from connection with the seat 15 3,ll07,736 Patented Nov. 7, 1961 and cabinet 10, after which the back rest and seat member 15 may be disassembled and placed conveniently upon the wall 19 of the cabinet 10 with legs and arm rests positioned thereover. In this disassembled condition the apparatus is placed in a suitable shipping crate or carton which by reason of the fact that the apparatus is disassembled is relatively small.

In constructing the chair and hair dryer in the manner herein set forth, I am able to ship the apparatus in disassembled condition in a relatively smaller shipping crate or carton at a minimum expense both in material and labor. The shipping crate with its disassembled apparatus packed therein will occupy a minimum space in the vehicle transporting the same.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction for carrying my invention into effect, this is capable of variation and modification without departing from the spirit of the invention. I, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the precise details of construction set forth, but desire to avail myself of such variations and modifications as come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. A knockdown combination chair and cabinet comprising a substantially rectangular cabinet, a chair including a separate seat member and a separate back rest each having a substantially flat surface adapted to be disposed at right angles with respect to each other, a laterally extending member carried by the cabinet providing a horizontal support for the inner end portion of the flat surface of the seat member with the flat surface of the back rest resting on said portion and in facial abutment with an adjacent vertically disposed Wall of the cabinet, legs and arm rests for said seat member, means for detachably connecting the legs to the forward end portion of the seat member, and means for connecting corresponding end portions of the arm rests to adjacent walls of the cabinet and said back rest.

2. A knock-down combination chair and cabinet comprising a substantially rectangular cabinet, a chair including a separate seat member and a separate back rest each having a substantially flat surface adapted to be disposed at right angles with respect to each other, a laterally extending member carried by the cabinet providing a horizontal support for the inner end portion of the fiat surface of the seat member with the fiat surface of the back rest resting on said portion and in facial abutment with an adjacent vertically disposed wall of the cabinet, legs and arm rests for said seat member, means for detachably connecting the legs to the forward end portion of the seat member, and means for connecting corresponding end portions of the arm rests to adjacent walls of the cabinet and said back rest, said seat member and said back rest having grooves into which are fitted adjacent portions of said legs and arm rests.

3. A knock-down combination chair and cabinet comprising a substantially rectangular cabinet, a chair including a separate seat member and a separateback rest each having a substantially flat surface adapted to be disposed at right angles with respect to each other, a laterally extending member carried by the cabinet providing a horizontal support for the inner end portion of the fiat surface of the seat member with the flat surface of the back rest resting on said portion and in facial abutment with an adjacent vertically disposed wall of the cabinet, legs and arm rests for said seat member, means for detachably connecting the legs to the forward end portion of the seat member, and means for connecting 4 corresponding end portions of the arm rests to adjacent References Cited in the file of this patent walls of the cabinet and said back rest, said seat member UNITED STATES PATENTS and said back rest havmg grooves lnto WhlCh are fitted D. 139,180 Foriyes Oct. 17, 1944 3 gF P fi sg g z g g 5 2,384,718 Booth Au .7,1945 Yes 5 6X en 8 111 0V T pp P0311 11 P Sal a J 1 23921485 Lanseth et a1 Jan. 8, 1946 Walls of Said cabinet- 2,797,734 Alexander July 2, 1957 

